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Will I get charged roaming when I go to Texas?
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As long as you don't happen to pick up a signal from a Mexican tower along the border you won't get charged roaming. You do have to be careful though, I noticed I hit a Rogers (Canadian) tower even within Michigan once.
I live in Texas, no roaming. As long as you have a US phone number you are safe to go anywhere in the US that you can get an AT&T signal. Never been close enough to the boarder to get signal from a Mexican tower, I have been to all of the surrounding states and many others with no roaming issues.
LOL Nice
No roaming, but depending on where you are going, it's hot as Hades here and it's been raining every day for like 2 weeks.
I'm a Texan, and Rick Perry does NOT speak for me. Just so you're aware, that we're not ALL like that.
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I'm not born and bred, I live here now and thank goodness everyone isn't like that!
It's all that damn humidity you guys have. Helps conduct the signal. Probably makes the grip of death that much worse as well.
Anywhere inside the USA where AT&T has native coverage, your plan is effective without any roaming surcharge.
There's a small caveat to that statement:
If you're moving around within an area where you are switching back and forth between AT&T's native infrastructure, and a domestic 3rd party partner carrier, then there are soft caps on what maximum percentage of your plan allotment of voice minutes, text messages, and data may be spent on the 3rd party network.
If you stay within those soft caps, then your regular rates apply and you won't know the difference between operating on AT&T's native network versus the domestic 3rd party carrier. However, if you exceed those soft caps, then you might end up getting switched to a plan which charges extra when you're operating on the 3rd party carrier's network, or else getting switched to a plan that doesn't let you use the 3rd party carrier at all. Neither of those corrective actions will be taken without alerting you of the problem first to give you a chance to adjust your behaviour voluntarily first.
This could happen anywhere within the USA, not just in Texas. But since you'll be travelling, it is possible that you aren't familiar yet with which parts of Texas are covered by AT&T natively, and which parts are covered by a 3rd party partner.
There's a small caveat to that statement:
If you're moving around within an area where you are switching back and forth between AT&T's native infrastructure, and a domestic 3rd party partner carrier, then there are soft caps on what maximum percentage of your plan allotment of voice minutes, text messages, and data may be spent on the 3rd party network.
If you stay within those soft caps, then your regular rates apply and you won't know the difference between operating on AT&T's native network versus the domestic 3rd party carrier. However, if you exceed those soft caps, then you might end up getting switched to a plan which charges extra when you're operating on the 3rd party carrier's network, or else getting switched to a plan that doesn't let you use the 3rd party carrier at all. Neither of those corrective actions will be taken without alerting you of the problem first to give you a chance to adjust your behaviour voluntarily first.
This could happen anywhere within the USA, not just in Texas. But since you'll be travelling, it is possible that you aren't familiar yet with which parts of Texas are covered by AT&T natively, and which parts are covered by a 3rd party partner.
"Go to", as in visit? Or "go to", as in move there?
Roaming while visiting short term anywhere in the USA isn't a problem.
Moving permanently to a location with native ATT coverage is also okay.
However, if you move to a location that doesn't have native ATT coverage, then you'll most likely be roaming more than 50% of the time, and they'll drop your account because they can't afford to pay that much in roaming fees to other carriers.
Roaming while visiting short term anywhere in the USA isn't a problem.
Moving permanently to a location with native ATT coverage is also okay.
However, if you move to a location that doesn't have native ATT coverage, then you'll most likely be roaming more than 50% of the time, and they'll drop your account because they can't afford to pay that much in roaming fees to other carriers.